Fort Worth Man Gets 80 Years For Buying A Hot Dog With Fake Money

[catman]

It wasn't a very bright thing to do. If he could afford to go to a movie, he should have known that the food would be ridiculously overpriced. But that's no excuse for using counterfeit money. If he was poor, that's the worst place to buy a hot dog!

[skelaki]

How about he's a dishonest crook who is responsible for his actions and now paying for them. No one forced him to use counterfeit money. No excuses!

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by catman

It wasn't a very bright thing to do. If he could afford to go to a movie, he should have known that the food would be ridiculously overpriced. But that's no excuse for using counterfeit money. If he was poor, that's the worst place to buy a hot dog!

I would think he figured it a good place to pass off the counterfeit money. Even though he was caught doing it once before in Mansfield at a movie theater, there's no telling how many times he has gotten by with it. Catch them when they're busy, get some goofy loking kid who doesn't look like he'd even know how to check for a fake bill and bingo, he achieved his goal. Sure, the hot dogs are overpriced, but what would he care? He was looking to unload a fake $20.00 and pocket the real money he got back in his change.

[catman]

I can see your point, but he tried it once too often. Make that twice too often. The new currency is a lot harder to fake. (Not that I have tried.)

[lonestar2007]

Yep! Crooks are lazy and greedy. The greed usually leads to their downfall. You're right, not too bright. Should have quit while the quitting was good.

Another thing that makes this so despicable is that sometimes employers will take the amount of the counterfeit money out of the employee's check. So you have some kid who's working his butt off serving up popcorn and hotdogs trying to make a few bucks while maybe his friends are in the movie enjoying themselves and it's busy and customers are impatient and he fails to take the time to check every bill that is handed to him and it just happens one of them if from a lowlife passing off counterfeit bills. These kids aren't making much money to begin with, so something like this is a real blow to them.

Anyway you look at it, someone (place of business/employee) is going to be out the money that goes into this lazy no-good's pocket simply because he's too sorry to earn money the old fashion way.

So good deal he got caught!

[Exult.Q36]

I am a little dissappointed with my fellow Texans. Not one poster has brought up the fact that regardless if this man was on a 3rd strike or not the sentencing was to harsh. This will be reviewed by the Supreme Court and it will be over turned. I am very concerned about our Justice System being inadequate with regards to sentencing.

[ETex2]

" Prosecutors presented evidence about other theft cases pending against the 48-year-old in Tarrant and Lamar counties, including being linked by DNA to the theft of an 18-wheeler in 2010.

The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office says jurors also heard about Nowden’s federal convictions for bank fraud and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

In a release to the media, Tarrant County’s assistant District Attorney Dawn Ferguson said Nowden was “a career cargo-thief who needed to be brought to justice.” "

It's not about buying a hot dog with a counterfeit bill. It's about being a career criminal who's stupidity and flagrant abuse of the law finally caught up with him. I would be shocked if the Texas Supreme Court gets involved with this loser's case.